Cinnabar

The main component of cinnabar is mercury sulfide (HgS); theoretically the mercury content is 86.2%, but it is often mixed with various impurities, the most common being realgar, phosphorite, and asphalt, etc.

This product can lower the excitability of the brain's central nervous system, with sedative, hypnotic, and anticonvulsant effects; it also counteracts arrhythmia. This product also has detoxifying and antiseptic actions; externally it can inhibit or kill skin bacteria and parasites. Cinnabar is a mercury compound; mercury has a special affinity for sulfhydryl groups in proteins, and at high concentrations can inhibit the activity of various enzymes.

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